In this podcast Jenny Brown goes in to how to become an active observer and refrain from confrontations & saving any important conversations for meeting with family members 1 on 1.
Growing up through the life cycle – these podcasts are deigned to prompt thinking about one’s own life adjustments as well as reflecting on the experiences of members of the broader family.
After a predictable period of cutting off from an ex-spouse it is worth finding a way to make contact again. “How making more contact helps to get unstuck: One of the interesting paradoxes of becoming more mature is that making more contact with previously significant people helps to create better boundaries in these relationships.” –…
This podcast begins to explore the various ways our immaturities are managed in marriage. In my book Growing Yourself Up, I refer to these patterns as ‘maturity detours’. This podcast looks at the dance of conflict and distance between spouses. Lifting up out of this intense pattern of attacking and defending requires a spouse to…
In this podcast, Jenny Brown shares an audio recording of a role played counselling session. It tracks the history of how each spouse has unknowingly contributed to a frustration in their marriage where one feels overburdened carrying the weight of responsibility and the other perceives the other as overly critical and lacking compassion – but…
In this Podcast Jenny Brown goes into the complexities of having your first child, including the joys and challenges that both parents may face.
– Balancing holding our limits with non-anxious connection. Keeping a focus on our thinking and behaviour as parents is especially difficult when parenting teenagers. Sometimes adolescent behaviours are full of so much impulsivity and intense emotion that we turn all our attention to trying to manage them – rather than managing ourselves in our interactions…
In this podcast Jenny Brown shares ways that parents may become anxiously focussed on one or more of their children. What is the effect of this focus on the child’s development? What difference does it make for children when the worry focus is reduced and parent confidence increases? How can a parent work on growing…
This talk was presented by Dr Jenny Brown in Dec 2018 at the school presentation day for PLC Sydney. It was delivered at the Sydney Opera House. Jenny reflects on how flourishing emerges from solid internal character, to connect genuinely with others and to self-regulate and self-direct. She proposes that the more parents and other…
A panicked mother discovers that her 12 year old daughter is writing stories with some sexually graphic and violent descriptions. How could this be? Has she been abused in some way? How do I approach her about it? The tumult of questions in response to this parenting shock point is seemingly endless for this parent….
